From sacred peaks to legendary cliffs, here’s your ultimate bucket list of Ireland’s most awe-inspiring landscapes. Whether ...

We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than ...

Croagh Patrick (also known as ‘the Reek’) is a 764m mountain on the west coast of Ireland: a great pyramid of rock which rises alone, its grandeur unobstructed by neighbouring peaks.

A twenty-minute climb brings you to Mám Éan, the “passage of the birds”, now overlooked by a gaunt statute of St Patrick and ...

Myth of the snakes The old adage of St. Patrick standing tall on the hilltop of Croagh Patrick, where he banished all the snakes out of Ireland, is a fun legend. However, it’s not true.

At 10.30am, a Church of Ireland priest led an ecumenical service for the first time in the history of the pilgrimage - which dates back to pagan times before St Patrick’s arrival to Mayo in the ...

Historical evidence shows that upon returning to Ireland, Patrick climbed Croagh Patrick, the country’s holy mountain, then fasted for 40 days. Only then did he begin his ministry of evangelism.

Archbishop Francis Duffy of Tuam put grandparents and the elderly at the heart of his message for the Jubilee Year's "Reek Sunday" pilgrimage at Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, on July 27. In ...